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A 50-year mystery over the
'cursed bread' of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering
hallucinations, has been solved after a writer discovered the US had
spiked the bread with LSD as part of an experiment.

An American investigative journalist has uncovered evidence suggesting
the CIA peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD

In 1951, a quiet, picturesque village in southern France was suddenly
and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. At
least five people died, dozens were interned in asylums and hundreds
afflicted.

For decades it was assumed that the local bread had been unwittingly
poisoned with a psychedelic mould. Now, however, an American
investigative journalist has uncovered evidence suggesting the CIA
peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD as part of a mind
control experiment at the height of the Cold War.

The mystery of Le Pain Maudit (Cursed Bread) still haunts the
inhabitants of Pont-Saint-Esprit, in the Gard, southeast France.

On August 16, 1951, the inhabitants were suddenly racked with frightful
hallucinations of terrifying beasts and fire.

One man tried to drown himself, screaming that his belly was being
eaten by snakes. An 11-year-old tried to strangle his grandmother.
Another man shouted: "I am a plane", before jumping out of a
second-floor window, breaking his legs. He then got up and carried on
for 50 yards. Another saw his heart escaping through his feet and
begged a doctor to put it back. Many were taken to the local asylum in
strait jackets.

Time magazine wrote at the time: "Among the stricken, delirium rose:
patients thrashed wildly on their beds, screaming that red flowers were
blossoming from their bodies, that their heads had turned to molten
lead."

Eventually, it was determined that the best-known local baker had
unwittingly contaminated his flour with ergot, a hallucinogenic mould
that infects rye grain. Another theory was the bread had been poisoned
with organic mercury.

However, H P Albarelli Jr., an investigative journalist, claims the
outbreak resulted from a covert experiment directed by the CIA and the
US Army's top-secret Special Operations Division (SOD) at Fort Detrick,
Maryland.

The scientists who produced both alternative explanations, he writes,
worked for the Swiss-based Sandoz Pharmaceutical Company, which was
then secretly supplying both the Army and CIA with LSD.

Mr Albarelli came across CIA documents while investigating the
suspicious suicide of Frank Olson, a biochemist working for the SOD who
fell from a 13th floor window two years after the Cursed Bread
incident. One note transcribes a conversation between a CIA agent and a
Sandoz official who mentions the "secret of Pont-Saint-Esprit" and
explains that it was not "at all" caused by mould but by diethylamide,
the D in LSD.

While compiling his book, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson
and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments, Mr Albarelli spoke to former
colleagues of Mr Olson, two of whom told him that the Pont-Saint-Esprit
incident was part of a mind control experiment run by the CIA and US
army.

After the Korean War the Americans launched a vast research programme
into the mental manipulation of prisoners and enemy troops.

Scientists at Fort Detrick told him that agents had sprayed LSD into
the air and also contaminated "local foot products".

Mr Albarelli said the real "smoking gun" was a White House document
sent to members of the Rockefeller Commission formed in 1975 to
investigate CIA abuses. It contained the names of a number of French
nationals who had been secretly employed by the CIA and made direct
reference to the "Pont St. Esprit incident." In its quest to research
LSD as an offensive weapon, Mr Albarelli claims, the US army also
drugged over 5,700 unwitting American servicemen between 1953 and 1965.

None of his sources would indicate whether the French secret services
were aware of the alleged operation. According to US news reports,
French intelligence chiefs have demanded the CIA explain itself
following the book's revelations. French intelligence officially denies
this.

Locals in Pont-Saint-Esprit still want to know why they were hit by
such apocalyptic scenes. "At the time people brought up the theory of
an experiment aimed at controlling a popular revolt," said Charles
Granjoh, 71.

"I almost kicked the bucket," he told the weekly French magazine Les
Inrockuptibles. "I'd like to know why."

Forth outcrop off North Berwick could have secret links to the Great
Pyramids at Giza.

Spoon-bender Uri Geller is to hunt for Egyptian treasure on his
Scottish island in the Firth of Forth.

Geller will look for artefacts relating to the legend of the exiled
Egyptian princess Scota, whose boat is said to have anchored at Lamb
Island, near North Berwick.

It will be Geller's first visit to the outcrop, which he bought last
year.

He said: "I decided to buy the island after learning that its
mysterious heritage dated back to the pharaohs.

"Indeed, the Lamb is one of three outcrops in the Firth of Forth whose
geography exactly mirrors the layout of the Great Pyramids at Giza,
leading some investigators to speculate that there are secret links
between them.

"The Lamb is one of the keystones to British mythology and I am
thrilled to be its new owner. I am fascinated by the connection between
the pyramids and these islands."

Geller, a close friend of the late Michael Jackson, will sail out to
the island on Saturday afternoon to search for clues and spend the
night there in a tent.

Along with the islands of Fidra, Craigleith and the nearby Bass Rock,
Lamb is a haven for wildlife and a Site of Special Scientific Interest
(SSSI).

Tom Brock OBE, chief executive of North Berwick’s Scottish Seabird
Centre, said: "We had been looking at the Lamb purely from a wildlife
perspective, so it's been fascinating to hear Uri's thoughts on it and
we are looking forward to meeting him, particularly as he does seem to
take the conservation aspect very seriously.

"The Lamb may have long been in the shadow of its world-famous big
brother, the Bass Rock, but we're delighted that, thanks to Uri, it's
going to become better known."

The depths of the Atlantic Ocean are filled with all kinds of strange
critters and creatures - maybe some we've never seen or heard of before.

Maybe John Marsh has discovered one of them.

Marsh, a fisherman in Lower Lance Cove, Trinity Bay, for nearly 60
years, says he's never seen anything like the animal found caught in
his son and nephew's caplin traps last summer.

In a letter to The Telegram, Marsh describes in detail the creature he
tried to help out of the trap, from its rounded teeth and camel-like
lips to the end of its three-pointed tail.

"It's almost too strange to talk about. It almost don't sound real, but
I told you the story of it and we've seen it," Marsh says over the
phone from his Lower Lance Cove home.

The day his son and nephew were out fishing, Marsh says he was called
to help them cut something out of the nets - a whale got caught, they
thought.

But he immediately noticed its eight- to 10-foot-long neck and the fact
that it didn't have a blowhole like a whale.

It was "smooth as glass," with pretty green and blue skin, he says.

"If it was a whale or anything like that he would have had old
barnacles and scratches on it and stuff like that, but this was
perfectly clean just like he come from a washer," he says, explaining
that leads him to believe it was probably living near or in fresh water.

He didn't have a camera with him and had to leave to go to a doctor's
appointment, Marsh says, explaining he'd hoped to go back for the
carcass, but when he did it had sunk.

"I could have made a fortune on it," he says. "It's amazing I'm telling
you."

Jack Lawson, a marine mammals research scientist with the Department of
Fisheries and Oceans, says he wishes Marsh had of taken a tissue sample
of the animal so testing could have been done.

He read the letter Marsh sent to The Telegram and says he's never heard
of anything with that combination of traits.

"Obviously, if he saw something, it would have been great if he could
have cut a piece off it or kept it. That's the frustrating part for me.
I would have loved to have seen what it was," Lawson says. "I love
mysteries.

"If it were a new species it would be really exciting for something
that large to have never been seen before."

Although he'd love to have proof of a new sea monster, Lawson says it's
possible what Marsh saw was any one of number of things that are
already known to be in the Atlantic Ocean.

"I know that some of the large whales that we've seen off shore that
have been vessel struck end up having unusual shapes to their bodies.
The configuration that we're used to seeing for a whale gets quite
changed when they decompose," Lawson says.

"We do occasionally get unusual things cast up. Usually it turns out to
be dead sharks or dead whales that have decomposed to the point where
they're not easily identifiable. And we've had - for instance on the
south coast - my supervisor was down there in 2002 looking at a sea
monster down there, and it turned out to be a sperm whale, but you
wouldn't have known it until they did the DNA on it."

It's also possible Marsh saw a cadborosaurus, says Lawson, citing a
much-rumoured, long-necked creature spotted hundreds of times on the
west coast of Canada.

But after being shown descriptions and artist renderings of the
cadborosaurus, Marsh said that's not what he saw.

Either way, Lawson has hope there are other things out there to
discover, and perhaps Marsh's monster is one of them.

"They certainly seem to be discovering new animals every year," Lawson
says.

"It's possible that we have things out in our waters that just haven't
cast themselves up on shore yet."

Sea monster sightings certainly aren't a rarity in this province.

In April 2000, Bonavista resident Bob Crewe swore he saw something
similar to what Marsh says he saw last summer.

Crewe said at the time he was driving along the cape when he spotted
something in the ocean. He stopped his truck and got out for better
look at the animal, which he described to be like a wide snake with a
snout at the end of its long neck.

Crewe also didn't get pictures of the creature he saw swim off towards
the lighthouse.

In May 1997, in Little Bay East, Fortune Bay, fisherman Charles Bungay
described seeing a creature with a long neck and gray, scaly skin.

Bungay and a fishing partner spotted what they thought were floating
garbage bags and decided to haul them aboard their boat. When they got
close, however, the creature reared up its head. He described it has
having a neck about six feet long, a head like a horse, horns or long
ears, and dark eyes. He estimated its overall length at about 30 to 40
feet.

The creature slipped under the water and disappeared.

At the time, some people suggested the Fortune Bay fishermen actually
saw a giant squid.

A Bay L'Argent fishermen saw a similar creature four or five years
prior to that sighting. He described it as being like a dinosaur.

And if you want to see a sea monster this year you might want to try in
Robert's Arm on the Northern Peninsula, where the town's Come Home Year
will focus on "Everything Cressie," or the monster in Crescent Lake.

According to local folklore, in the 1950s two men said they spotted an
overturned boat in Crescent Lake as they walked the shore, concerned
they started to help but the "monster" turned and slipped into the
water.

The 10-day event this July asks former residents to come home and spot
Cressie.

The Devil is lurking in the very heart of the Roman Catholic Church,
claims the Vatican's chief exorcist.

Father Gabriele Amorth said people who are possessed by Satan vomit
shards of glass and pieces of iron.

He added that the assault on Pope Benedict XVI on Christmas Eve by a
mentally unstable woman and the sex abuse scandals which have engulfed
the Church in the US, Ireland, Germany and other countries, were proof
that the Anti-Christ was waging a war against the Holy See.

"The Devil resides in the Vatican and you can see the consequences,"
said Father Amorth, 85, who has been the Holy See's chief exorcist for
25 years.

"He can remain hidden, or speak in different languages, or even appear
to be sympathetic. At times he makes fun of me. But I'm a man who is
happy in his work."

While there was "resistance and mistrust" towards the concept of
exorcism among some Catholics, Pope Benedict XVI has no such doubts,
Father Amorth said. "His Holiness believes wholeheartedly in the
practice of exorcism. He has encouraged and praised our work," he added.

The evil influence of Satan was evident in the highest ranks of the
Catholic hierarchy, with "cardinals who do not believe in Jesus and
bishops who are linked to the demon," Father Amorth said.

In a rare insight into the world of exorcism, the Italian priest told
La Repubblica newspaper that the 1973 film The Exorcist gave a
"substantially exact" impression of what it was like to be possessed by
the Devil.

People possessed by evil sometimes had to be physically restrained by
half a dozen people while they were exorcised. They would scream, utter
blasphemies and spit out sharp objects, he said.

"From their mouths, anything can come out – pieces of iron as long as a
finger, but also rose petals," said Father Amorth, who claims to have
performed 70,000 exorcisms. "When the possessed dribble and slobber,
and need cleaning up, I do that too. Seeing people vomit doesn't bother
me. The exorcist has one principal duty - to free human beings from the
fear of the Devil."

The attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II by a Turkish gunman in
1981 and recent revelations of "violence and paedophilia" committed by
Catholic priests against children in their care was also the work of
the Devil, said Father Amorth, who has written a book about his
vocation, Memoirs of an Exorcist, which was published recently.

Father Amorth, who is the president of the Association of Exorcists and
fought as a partisan during the war, has previously claimed that both
Hitler and Stalin were possessed by the Devil.

In an interview with Vatican Radio in 2006, he said: "Of course the
Devil exists and he can not only possess a single person but also
groups and entire populations.

"I am convinced that the Nazis were all possessed. All you have to do
is think about what Hitler and Stalin did."

He also condemned the Harry Potter books, saying they were dangerous
because they dabbled in the occult and failed to draw a clear
distinction between "the Satanic art" of black magic and benevolent
white magic.

A recent report in Northern Territory News has provided evidence that
food falling from the sky is more than a legend. It was reported that
on Feb. 25 and 26, fish landed like rain on Lajamanu, Australia, 200
miles from the coast.

The fish, believed to be a small white type called the spangled perch,
are common in northern Australia. According to Balmer, the fish were
alive when they fell.

Residents from Lajamanu, Maningrida, and Hermannsburg have told the
Northern Territory News about their experiences of seeing the raining
fish. One said that, when he was a child, his peers would go fishing in
an oval (an Australian football field) when fish fell from the sky.

Villagers in Yoro, Honduras, are accustomed to preparing containers
like buckets and basins every year during the rainy season between May
and July in expectation of the annual fish-fall from the sky.

Although there are no other cases quite as cyclic and repetitive as
Yoro’s, the raining down of aquatic animals, amphibians, and other even
more bizarre things have occurred in other areas.

In 1578, large yellow mice poured from the skies over Bergen, Norway.

In January 1877, the prestigious Scientific American recorded a
rainfall consisting of snakes that measured up to about 20 inches long
in Memphis, Tennessee.

In February 1877, a yellow, flaky substance fell in Penchloch, Germany.
The substance was reportedly thick, had a fragrance, and came in the
shapes of arrows, coffee beans, and round discs.

In December 1974, during the course of several days it rained
hard-boiled eggs over an elementary school in Berkshire, England.

In 1969, it rained flesh and blood over a large area of Brazil.

In 1989, wooden dolls with heads that were burned or cut off fell from
the sky over the town of Las Pilas, Cantabria.

In 2007, it rained small frogs over Alicante, Spain; and spiders rained
down in Cerro San Bernardo, Salta, Argentina. A reader of The Epoch
Times took a photo of the event.

On July 31, 2008, it rained blood (reportedly confirmed by lab
analysis) in the town of Choco, Colombia.

Northern Territory News cited Australian Bureau of Meteorology senior
forecaster Ashley Patterson, who attempted to explain the fish rain in
Australia. His theory is not unlike that of many other scientists who
believe that fish can be sucked up into the clouds by twisters,
waterspouts, or tornados, travel with the clouds, and then fall down
again, landing away from their site of origin.

“With an updraft, [fish and water picked up] could get up high—up to
60,000 or 70,000 feet,” Patterson said. “Or [it is] possibly from a
tornado over a large water body—but we haven't had any reports.”

However, in the majority of cases, this theory doesn’t seem to explain
why only a particular animal or object would fall from the sky. Why
would a current of air choose to lift up, for example, all the frogs
from a lagoon without taking the water, mud, algae, and other species
from that very same ecosystem?

The explanation becomes much less plausible when, like in the case of
the fish rain in Australia, there are no bodies of water nearby, and
neither hurricanes nor tornados were recorded at the moment of or
during the days prior to the anomaly.

Some also try to explain the falling of man-made objects as objects
falling from airplanes, but that could not have happened without people
seeing the airplanes.

In many cases, people tend to attribute such phenomena to experiments
by alien craft or to a dimensional crossroads, where things suddenly
materialize or disappear from the skies. In some instances the
phenomena have been blamed on a “cosmic joker,” referring to a higher
being with nothing more to do than be entertained by humans’ reactions
to such strange rains.

Until today, material rainfalls have done nothing more than to generate
doubt, since these events have been recorded in documents like the
Bible and in ancient Egyptian writings.

Are these selective waterspouts? Are they weather phenomena that are
perfectly explainable? Are they messages from the gods? Whatever the
case, the next time the sky darkens you’d better be forewarned; it may
not just be a watery downpour.

Source: The Epoch Times
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/30887/

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The Earth is Flat? What
Planet is he on?

The Flat Earth Society has become a byword for sticking your head in
the sand, whatever the scientific facts. David Adam tries to make sense
of its new president, Daniel Shenton

Daniel Shenton should be the most irrational man in the world. As the
new president of the Flat Earth Society, you'd ­imagine he would
also think that evolution is a scam and ­global warming a myth. He
should ­argue that smoking does not cause ­cancer and HIV does
not lead to Aids.

Yes, that Flat Earth Society, a group that has become a living metaphor
for backward thinking and a refusal to face scientific facts. Yes, it
is still going, and no, this isn't an early April fool.

In fact, Shenton turns out to have resolutely mainstream views on most
issues. The 33-year-old American, ­originally from Virginia but now
living and working in London, is happy with the work of Charles Darwin.
He thinks the evidence for man-made global warming is strong, and he
dismisses suggestions that his own government was involved with the
9/11 terrorist attacks.

He is mainstream on most issues, but not all. For when Shenton rides
his motorbike, he says it is not gravity that pins him to the road, but
the rapid upward motion of a disc-shaped planet. Countries, according
to him, spread across this flat world as they appear to do on a map,
with Antarctica as a ring of mountains strung around the edge. And,
yes, you can fall off.

If you thought that flat Earthism was gone, think again. The scientific
evidence is stacked against Shenton, ­obviously, just as it is
against those who think global warming is a hoax and that the dead
stalk the Earth as ghosts – but that doesn't appear to trouble him in
the least.

"There is no unified flat Earth model," Shenton suggests, "but the most
commonly accepted one is that it's more or less a disc, with a ring of
something to hold in the water. The height and substance of that, no
one is absolutely sure, but most people think it's mountains with snow
and ice."

The Earth is flat, he argues, because it appears flat. The sun and moon
are spherical, but much smaller than mainstream science says, and they
rotate around a plane of the Earth, because they appear to do so.

Inevitably, Shenton's ­argument forces him down all kinds of
logical blind alleys – the non-existence of gravity, and his argument
that most space exploration, and so the moon landings, are faked. But,
while many flat Earthers have problems with the idea of orbiting
satellites, ­Shenton navigates the ­London streets using GPS.
He was also happy to fly from the US to Britain, but says an aircraft
that flew over the Antarctic ­barrier would drop from the sky, and
from the planet.

The Flat Earth Society was originally formed as the Universal Zetetic
Society in 1884, after the Greek word zeteo, "to seek". Zeteticism,
Shenton says, ­emphasises experience and reason over the
­"trusting acceptance of dogma" – or, it seems, overwhelming
evidence. Only a personal trip into space to see the world as it is for
himself would ­persuade him. "But even then, in seeing it, I would
have to be convinced there weren't any tricks involved."

The International Flat Earth Society was formally founded in 1956.
Shenton resurrected the society and claimed its presidency last year,
­following years of inaction after the death of former
­president Charles Johnson in 2001, who had some 3,000 registered
followers. He has so far recruited 60 members through the society's
website, which boasts about 9,000 visitors to its discussion forums.

"I can't say what everybody's motive is for joining, but there are
quite a few who I know are as serious as I am," he says. "Lots of
people log on once to hurl abuse but they tend to get bored and go
away. We're not ­fanatical about it and we're not going to engage
in pointless, ­angry discussions."

The website features scanned issues of the society's newsletter, the
notorious Flat Earth News, from its 1970s and 80s heyday. Sample
headlines include: Sun Is a Light 32 Miles Across, Australia Not Down
Under, and World Is Flat and That's That.

"I thought it was a shame that all these documents would go unseen
­forever," Shenton says. But what about the evidence? In an age
where ­astronauts send photographs of a spherical planet from an
orbiting space station, how can the concept of a flat Earth persist?

"Look at what special effects are capable of: you can produce any
photograph, any video. I don't think there is solid proof. I'm not
intentionally being stubborn about it, but I feel our senses tell us
these things, and it would take an extraordinarily level of evidence to
counteract those. How many people have actually investigated it? Have
you?"

Last year, Shenton did just that, travelling to a six-mile stretch of
straight water along the Old Bedford River in Norfolk, the scene of
many infamous flat Earth experiments. "There should have been
curvature, but I didn't see what mainstream science says should have
been there," he says.

Shenton's critics, it should be pointed out, can fall back on spherical
trigonometry and astronomical ­observations that date right back to
Aristotle in 330BC. In fact, the idea of a flat Earth was widespread
only until about the fourth century BC, when the Ancient Greeks first
proposed it was a sphere. By the Middle Ages, most ­people in
Europe were convinced, ­contrary to popular stories. "A lot of the
stuff about Columbus isn't true; there weren't mutinies about whether
they would fall off the Earth," Shenton says.

The modern Flat Earth movement dates back to Victorian England, and
biblical literalist Samuel Rowbotham and his followers, who promoted
their cause by engaging top scientists of the day in public debate.

Shenton himself used to accept that the Earth was round, but began
­asking questions after hearing musician Thomas Dolby's 1984 album
The Flat Earth. (When Shenton reconvened the society last year, Dolby
accepted membership number 00001.) "It was the late 1990s and I started
doing research into what the Flat Earth Society was. I had heard of it
and, when I did some more research, I eventually ended up believing its
ideas were true."

It may sound like Shenton is playing games, that the reborn society is
a clever metaphor or marketing tool for another cause – but he insists
he is serious.

"I haven't taken this position just to be difficult. To look around,
the world does appear to be flat, so I think it is ­incumbent on
others to prove ­decisively that it isn't. And I don't think that
burden of proof has been met yet."